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The DeFi Decoded Podcast

The DeFi Decoded Podcast

By: Alex Tapscott
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Summary
 Weekly market commentary and conversations on crypto and the future of finance. Co-hosts Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young break down market trends and interview the founders, investors, and leaders shaping the industry. Where Wall Street and crypto converge.2026 Economics Personal Finance
Episodes
  • Why Tokenization is Inevitable with Charles d'Haussy of dYdX Foundation

    Why Tokenization is Inevitable with Charles d'Haussy of dYdX Foundation
    Nov 10 2026
    Join Alex Tapscott as he decodes the world of perpetual futures and global crypto hubs with returning guest Charles d'Haussy, CEO of the dYdX Foundation. Listen in as Charles explains how dYdX helped bring perpetual futures to the masses, with $1.5 trillion in lifetime trading volume, and how traders used it to trade oil over the weekend when the Iran war broke out. He explains why tokenized stocks still lack a common standard, why fighting tokenization is "futile," and why TradFi, not other crypto exchanges, is DeFi's biggest competitor. Alex and Charles also get into his new book, Arabian Crypto. They cover why he calls the UAE "a mini America," how Dubai and Abu Dhabi differ for crypto founders, why 36% of globally traded RWAs are issued out of Abu Dhabi, and how AI is raising the stakes on crypto security.
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    38 mins
  • Born to Build: Companies, Canada, and a New Musical Instrument with Serial Entrepreneur Daniel Debow

    Born to Build: Companies, Canada, and a New Musical Instrument with Serial Entrepreneur Daniel Debow
    Oct 26 2026
    Join Alex Tapscott as he decodes the world of building in Canada with special guest Daniel Debow, Founder of Debow Musical Instruments and chair of Build Canada. Listen in as Daniel, the serial founder behind Workbrain, Rypple and Helpful and a former Shopify VP, introduces Torch. It's a new electroacoustic "campfire instrument" made of real wood, and it has first-timers playing a song in minutes. He explains how magnets vibrate the wood to make sound, why 90% of beginner guitarists quit within a year, and why he calls Torch a "mission project" rather than a passion project. Alex and Daniel also get into Shopify's hypergrowth years and why applications build platforms, not the other way around. They cover how Build Canada grew from AI-drafted policy memos into polls, candidate surveys and meetups across the country, and why Canada should aim to be number one rather than settle for keeping pace.
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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • How Decentralized Compute Markets Solve AI Bottlenecks with Greg Osuri of Akash Network

    How Decentralized Compute Markets Solve AI Bottlenecks with Greg Osuri of Akash Network
    Oct 21 2026
    Join Alex Tapscott as he decodes the world of AI compute with returning guest Greg Osuri, Founder of Akash Network. Listen in as Greg explains why one lab's soft quarter says little about real demand when only 2.4 million people use agents and supply chains are already maxed out, with four-year waits for transformers and fourteen-year waits for turbines. He explains why AI will become a utility like the internet rather than a subscription like the news, why a $200 plan buying roughly $8,000 of compute means the subsidized party is ending, and how Akash is nearing a trillion tokens a month while doubling monthly. Alex and Greg also get into what's really stalling the build-out — energy, permits, community pushback and the leverage behind the CoreWeave jitters — how the shift from training to inference opens the door to homes, offices and 10-kilowatt clusters, why frontier GPUs now trade only through bilateral contracts and what tradable compute contracts could change, and why Greg believes "homes will be the future of AI."
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    49 mins
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